Just Bought a 50mm Lens!! Love it!!

[apertureman]

I meant to add the word FOOT into the word TELEPHOTO, just to be funny, because you have to zoom with your feet. Perhaps it didn't really work

 

[KalaMarie]

It sounds like you're loving your new lens! I only have two lenses, but the 50mm is my baby.

 

[apertureman]

It sounds like you're loving your new lens! I only have two lenses, but the 50mm is my baby.

It is a baby!! So small, yet so powerful. I was shooting indoors in a church sanctuary with available light using this lens with shutter speeds of 1/125 and 1/60, on ISO 400 film. No tripod, handheld. It's awesome!!

What is your second lens? Just curious.

 

[Derrel]

Welcome to the 1980's...a fast 50mm lens and decent 400 ISO color film...

to those weaned on pokey 18-55mm f/3.5~5.6 kit zooms, a 50mm lens with an f/1.8 or f/1.4 aperture is a mind-opening experience...it's what almost every SLR camera sold in the late 1970's and into the mid-19809's came with--a "fast fifty".

Hand-held shooting at 1/125 and 1/60 second in indoor conditions at ISO 400 was "a given" 25 years ago. In some ways, the photo industry has pulled the wool over the eyes of today's entry-level customer by foisting off a low-speed lens that would not have ever sold 20 years ago; at that time, f/3.3~4.5 in a 35-70 Nikkor was a "slow" zoom lens sold with entry-level cameras; it is amazing how pathetically slow the camera makers have gone on entry-level zoom lenses.